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William S. Richardson School of Law
University of Hawai'i at Manoa

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

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Volume 6, No. 7
Week of October 8, 2001
 
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Members of our law school community and their families may directly be affected by our country's stepped-up military action. We wish them well and give them our support.
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS
 

The Summer 2001 Bar results have just been released. The names will be posted on the Student Services Bulletin Board. Congratulations to our soon to be admitted newest lawyers!

The University has published a new policy on Workplace Non-Violence, E9.210 which prohibits any work related or workplace violence against its students, faculty, staff and visitors. It can be read at www.hawaii.edu/svpa/ep/e9/e9210.pdf

GOLF TOURNAMENT. The 15th Annual UH Law Benefit Golf Tournament will be held at Honolulu Country Club on Tuesday, November 20, 2001. This is an annual "friend raising" event sponsored by the WSRSL Alumni Association for the School's alumni and friends. Over the years this tournament has raised $68,500 for scholarships presented to law students dedicated to public service and to support UHELP's legal services for the elderly. To commemorate and celebrate this 15th Annual Tournament, non-golfing deans, faculty, staff, alumni, students and friends are welcome to attend the after-play Banquet also being held at Honolulu Country Club, at $25 per person (includes door prize entry drawing). Golf entry fees are $115 per player, $345 per 3-person team; 4 level of sponsorships (Gold at $750, Silver at $400, Bronze at $150, and Tee at $250). Check-in at 11:00 a.m.; 12:30 p.m. shotgun start, modified 1-2 best ball format. Tournament brochures with Golf and Banquet entry forms are available at downstairs administration office front desk and from EILEEN BROMS in the development office (Room 216, upstairs administration). Sorry students, attendance at this worthy event is still not an excused absence!

Flu vaccines are now available for $10.00 at the University Health Services, 1710 East West Road.

   
FACULTY
 

DAVID CALLIES, HEIDI GUTH 3L and former Visiting Prof. TSUYOSHI KOTAKA have an article published in The Environmental Law Reporter News and Analysis, October 2001 issue, entitled "Taking Land: Compulsory Purchase and Regulation of Land in Asian-Pacific Countries."

CASEY JARMAN is one of several co-writers of "A Survey of Federal Agency Response to President Clinton's Executive Order No. 12898 on Environmental Justice" in the Oct. 2001 issue of the The Environmetal Law Reporter News and Analysis.

KAREN GEBBIA-PINETTI will be presenting a paper titled "Small Business Reorganization and the SABRE Proposals" to which several others will be writing responses and commenting at the November 15 Conference on Corporate Law at Fordham University School of Law. The paper and responses will be published in the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law.

JON VAN DYKE has just returned from New Delhi where he gave a paper to the Indian Society of International Law on October 4 on "The Evolution and International Acceptance of the Precautionary Principle."

ADJUNCT, DR. S.Y. TAN '86 (and father of LEILANI TAN 3L) is featured in an article in the Fall issue of Island Scene about his piano playing, in addition to his position as an endocrinologist and UH professor.

 
STUDENTS
 

BECKY CHESTNUT 3L, received the Hawaii State Bar Association Young Lawyer's Division Award for Best Second Year Seminar at the Bar Convention on September 27 for her paper entitled "John Doe Exposed: Anonymity, the First Amendment, and Privacy in Cyberspace" which she wrote as a student in PROF. DANIELLE CONWAY-JONES' class last year.

SHAWN CHING 1L is on the cover of the October issue of Honolulu Magazine in an article entitled "Getting Along - Women and Men on the Job."

   
ALUMNI
 

DAVID FORMAN '93, PETER KNAPMAN '97, LEA HONG '91, DOUG CODIGA '94 and ISAAC MORIWAKE' comprise 5 out of the 7 lawyers designated the Environmental & Cultural Resources Law Group within the Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing law firm. The article accompanying the color photo of the group in the October 2001 issue of Hawaii Business also refers to Doug's law school teaching and Isaac and Peter's Environmental Law Certificates received from the law school.

 
LAW SCHOOL FAMILY
 
FORMER DEAN JEREMY HARRISON visited the law school last week while here on Fall break from teaching at Michigan State Univ. Law School. He is here with his wife LAURA MARRACK HARRISON '88 and their five sons ages 2 through 10.

FORMER VISITING PROF. STEVE KROPP is currently at the University of Denver this semester teaching two sections of contracts.

HEATHER STANTON MORETZSOHN '00 and her husband Fabio announced the birth of their daughter Olivia Elizabeth on July 18, 2001.

FRIEDA HONDA's daughter, Jennifer, married Brian Hartman on Sept. 29. Friends and family from all over joined in the happy celebration at the Kahala Mandarin. The couple live in Seattle.